Between continuous growth spurts and playing like their lives depended on it, keeping kids in decent shoes can be difficult even for those without monetary restraints. But for the parents of the disadvantaged children in Immokalee, new shoes and supplies for school are sadly not options when competing with other…
Scott Phelps is the featured speaker at the Collier Community Abstinence Program’s event. Scott is the Executive Director of the Abstinence and Marriage Education Partnership in Chicago and publishes abstinence education texts “Quest”, “Game Plan”, and “Navigator”. He is an enthusiastic speaker who has reached over 1 million teens. This…
I received an email this past week from a long time parishioner inquiring about the Catholic Faith Appeal. He was curious as to what the CFA supports and more importantly how our assessment is derived. Many years ago I used to speak from the pulpit in great detail about the…
Archibishop Timothy Dolan recently wrote an article on the “Dignity of the Human Person”: A week or so ago, I watched with shame as an angry mob in southern California surrounded buses filled with frightened, hungry, homeless immigrants, shaking fists, and shouting for them to “get out!” It was un-American;…
While we sit in sunny Florida (or have moved other places during the heat of the summer), it is hard to process all the devastation and atrocities occurring around the world. We have issues right here locally we are dealing with directly (please visit our website for more information on…
With the ramp up to the World Meeting of Families next September, we are being treated with enduring images of how our faith and our Church engages in the love and joyousness of families. This past weekend, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia announced the patron saints of the Meeting,…
